Week 18 Starts of the Week + Boom Boom's Epic Conclusion - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/5

And they have great fantasy output. It is not a risk worth taking to me at all. I agree with you. These guys, I'm looking for other options if I can because the Vegas line is usually the right line to, you know, go after. Chase that information, not coach speak. On the other side of the ball, though, if they do sit some players down, they're going to sit some defensive players down as well. Tyler Alger will get every opportunity in this game. Yeah, he's in. He's a great play. Last three games, a top 12 running back. Desmond Ritter is not an option. Drake London, you could give him a go. In full PPR, yeah, I mean, it was since Desmond Ritter came in, even though Desmond Ritter is not very good and not throwing a ton of yards, he is. Can't throw yards, bro. Not, you know, accumulating a bunch of yards.

The targets have just been all going to Drake London at the wide receiver position. He's a really good player. 11 targets, nine targets, eight targets, 12 targets, his last four games. So Drake London and a full PPR, I think, is in. New England's eight and eight, and they take on the 12 and three Buffalo bills, the DK Sportsbook line, Buffalo minus seven. The overrunner is 42 and a half. Buffalo will already know the result of the Kansas City game. So there's a situation here where they are, you know, not. at much of a risk. Now, they could still drop to the three seed. What is that playoff scenario, Kyle? It's dependent on the Bengals, and if they reschedule the game, then they technically could. New England can clinch the wild card in this game with a win against Buffalo, so they will be highly motivated. They're playing for their playoff lives. Buffalo beat them 2410 in week 13. What is your approach to this game?

Yeah, I mean, as of now, I think you can only take the approach of looking at this as a normal matchup. This is, I think both players, both teams are going to be motivated enough given their situation and their circumstances where you just say they're going at it. And I'm not valuing the risk high enough for the reward in this specific type of a matchup when you've got this good of fantasy options from the bill's side of the ball. Remandre Stevenson, even with motivation in the last two weeks, it's been really brutal for your fantasy rosters. Are you motivated to play Remandre? I feel like you're probably stuck, but this is not a good matchup. He's been bad. He now has Damien Harris back. So remandre, to me, is RB2, RB3 territory. Agreed. You know, Jacobi Myers, if he's active, is the only wide receiver I'd play for New England. Is that fair? Yeah, that's fair.

I was going to say, like, Tyquan Thornton did get seven targets. If Myers is out, would you look at Thornton? I'd be, I'd be okay with it. Intrigued? Yeah, seven, like I said, the seven targets, three for six. Do you play them over ETN? No, no, no, get out of him. I'm just playing. Jason would. I would not. James Cook, Evan Singletary. How do I get Keishon Vaughn? Well, you didn't say Keishon, Vaughn. I know, but I'm just trying to think of all the nasty boys I can. All right. Are we moving on? What are your choices here? Gabe Davis? Yeah, Gabe Davis is a, you know, a swing for the fences type of player that you can always put in your lineup, have a two touchdown game. And I think Dawson Knox is fine as well. The Patriots haven't been shutting down tight ends this year. And he has been on a roll. So I'd be fine starting him as a low-end tight-in one. Minnesota's 12 and 4. They take on the 3 and 13. Chicago Bears, the D.K. Sportsbook line, Minnesota minus 7, the overrunners 43. The Bears will be starting Nathan Peterman. They've lost nine in a row.

The Bears, if they lose and the Texans lose to the Colts, that can't be true. The Bears get the number one pick. That must have been Texans need to win. No, if the Texans lose to the Colts, they will have three losses and the win percentage would give the Bears the number one pick. Because they have a tie? Correct. Interesting. Okay. Wait a minute. That is not true. So there's one, you're telling me 2.13 and 1 is better than 3 and 3. Sorry, the Texans win. Sorry, the Texans win. That's what I said. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I was like, that doesn't make any sense. He just meant there was a loss in the game that the Texans play in, but it was on the other side of the field. There was a loss in the match. There was a loss in that matchup. Yeah. All right. So the Bears have a shot to still get the number one pick if the Texans were to win against the Colts, which is not impossible. That matchup is two teams trying hard to lose. Say that you have the.

I think the Texans might win that game. The Houston Texans 2.13 and 1. The Colts 411 and 1. Both teams should, the players don't want to lose. They never want to lose. But the management of the team certainly would be okay if their team lost this matchup. So that will be, that's going to be an interesting watch. Do you think some of these coaches that know they're on the way out? You know, maybe that's why Adam Gase went and won that last game was just to stick it to him to be like, I don't want them winning with Trevor Lawrence when I'm gone. I'm going to make sure they get Zach Wilson win this last game. Levy Smith goes out there and just dominates. There's no way that that number two would have evaluated the quarterback talent in such a fashion, Jason. That's fair. Kirk Cousins, you know, Dalvin Cook, Justin Jefferson, they got to win this game, but they could do it.

You know, in a Jacksonville fashion from last week. Yeah, but I'm playing everybody. Yep, 100%. Dalvin Cook, who let a lot of people down last week and last year in that same week. This matchup is just so great for him. I have to have him in my line. So play your Vikings. What about Colquamette without Justin Fields? If you've got Nathan Peterman at quarterback, I think Montgomery and Herbert can be played if you're desperate, you know, for a running back start. But Colcomette. The target share has been there, but a new quarterback. Yeah, I mean, on the plus side, you're going to have probably more opportunity for passing because Nathan Peterman is not going to be running for 100 yards and a quarter. But also he's Nathan Peterman. He's not going to be throwing for touchdowns or a ton of passing yards. So I'm pretty much out on Colcomit. Where are you on Alexander Madison with the potential that you have? This game wrapped up pretty quickly last week.

I mean, not a ton of work, but 40% of the snaps. That's his highest snap share since week five. Nine opportunities was his highest opportunity share since week five. Yeah, what about him versus Herbert in the same game where you have the secondary option? Right. Like Madison should have an opportunity to get extra work in this game, no question. I don't mind him as a flex play personally. Yeah, I think, yeah, as a flex, that's obviously way ahead of ETN. Right, yeah. Well, I mean, you have to bench E.T. And that's what I was saying. Just no matter what, you got to, you know, punt him off the bridge. So would you go Herbert or Madison, Jason? In this game, I think I'll go Herbert just because we've seen massive plays from him. And, you know, personally, I don't love starting either one of them. I think I might go Madison.

I think it's a very tough call between the two. The rush defense of the Bears is garbage, hot garbage. So I guess touchdown opportunities, probably more there for the Viking side, the matchup better. So yeah, I'll switch over and go Madison. But I'm not loving the play of either. Ravens are 10 and 6. They take on the 11 and 4 angles. The D.K. Sportsbookline Cincinnati at home, minus 7, overrunners 42. If Cincinnati wins, these two teams would likely face each other in the playoffs. Cincinnati is the three seed Baltimore. It's the six seed. And if Cincinnati wins this game, the Chargers will likely bench players in the afternoon. Baltimore did win in week five, but they had a quarterback named Lamar Jackson at the time. Cincinnati was also not the same team in week five of this season. You're starting all your Bengals, Jason? Yeah, I am. I mean, Joe Mixen is in despite a difficult matchup just because of the opportunities. He had 25 in week 16. Joe Burroughs is too good to...

ever bench right now. Jamar Chase, too good to ever bench ever. T. Higgins, too good to bench. So those guys are in. I'm not rolling with Boyd or P. Ryan or Hayden Hurst as ancillary options because the Baltimore Ravens defense is good. But the great guys, they have to be in. You did see, I mean, we only got a little bit of the game, but Hayden Hurst was getting involved in the offense early for Cincinnati in his return, which was nice to see. This is a team that could move to the number two seed if Buffalo does lose to New England, which is not.

an impossibility this week, New England, trying to make the playoffs. So there's some stuff on the line there for Cincinnati. Baltimore, you know, they're resting up for the playoffs, really. You got J.K. Dobbins' is fast right leg. Yeah, what do you do with Super Leg? Sure. Sure. RB2, RB3. Yeah, I can agree with that. The one thing to watch would be Gus Edwards, the Gus Bus got... essentially no work. He got three carries this past week. And Harbaugh came out and, you know, it's the classic, the coach of, I have no idea how the player on my team didn't play, but they should have played more. So he went to that line. So I think that Gus will be back eating into the split a little bit more. Oh, beep, beep. I love that. I forgot about that drop. The Gus bus. It does make sense, though, you know, with.

You know, he's more of a CEO type of, you know, he's above everything. The office coordinator is going to run the show there and put those packages together. If he comes out and says that's absolutely unacceptable, you know, you will see more Gus bus in this game. The matchup is not great. So Dobbins is okay. He's an okay play, but, you know, you could see a dud because he's not catching passes. If he doesn't break off a long one or get a touchdown, it's easy for him to have a lower floor than what we are hoping. If you stuck with Mark Andrews last week, you were rewarded nine for 100 on nine targets. You stay with him this week. Yeah. But I think Isaiah likely could be involved as well. The running or the wide receiver room is just, I mean, you're down to Deshaun Jackson, Sammy Watkins, DeMarcus Robinson. Pufta. Depletion is the word. Houston's 213 and 1. They take on Indianapolis at 411 and 1. Kyle would have you believe that if they managed to lose this game, they can.

They can lose their number one pick. Draft King Sportsbook line, Indianapolis minus two and a half over under 38. Watching this game would be one of the possible punishments you could give to your children if they were disobedient this week. They did something wrong. You could sit them down and make them watch this game in lieu of maybe doing some chores or any other type of punishment. Or, you know, people ask last place finisher in my league. Maybe you're a week 17 league. Say, well, what's the punishment? Well, you've got to watch this game. Ironically, this game... That's a pretty good punishment if you tell them they have to dress up as one of the teams and root for them. Yeah. You have to root for one of these teams to win. Can't miss a snap. Cannot miss a snap. I do think this game will end up possibly being entertaining. It's not going to be the process throughout three and a half quarters. Probably not there. But, you know, a two and a half point line says it could be a competitive game. I think you've got the Colts maybe wanting to lose.

The Texans may be wanting to win because we do see that. It's so dumb and they shouldn't. But if Lovie Smith goes out there and wants to leave his mark, it could end up being a close competitive game at the very least, even if for fantasy purposes, not great. There's some juice in here. One of the things that happens, you know, you think about Houston and their actual situation. Sorry, Jason. Jason just saw my running back start of the week. Garrow. Oh, yeah. Oh, vomit. The Rolling Stone. My starts of the week are all quite. Nasty. Look, Houston, the players, the individual players in the coaching staff wants to win this football game. You know, they're fighting for their jobs. You know, this is a team that's going to draft a quarterback, and it's going to be a refresh. So, Zach Moss is going to start running back on the Colt side of the ball.

There'll be some combination of Roy's Freeman, Rex Burkett, and Daria, Gumbulli on the Houston side. You know, Brandon Cooks is not going to be on this team, I don't think, after this game. Maybe. Maybe the rookie coming in would motivate Brandon Cooks to stay. But Brandon Cook's Michael Pittman, a couple of disappointments this year. Sure. Michael Pittman over the last decade is the lowest fantasy points of any player with 95 plus catches, which is just... So sad. Well, the offense is disgusting. The quarterback play has been nasty. Yeah, but I'm saying like. And Matt Ryan was so far and away the best quarterback. And he was terrible. But it said like if you said. If I said like there was a lot.

I was so hyped for Michael Pittman this year. A lot of people were excited for what he could do taking a step forward this year. You're the mayor, not me. Yeah, this is your city, bro. Hey, I still reside as I still believe in the player. But if I said, hey, Jay. Property values are down. Through, oh, yeah, we're stuck. There's a lot of problems in the city right now. We're trying to clean it up. But through week 17, I said, Jay. Yeah. Michael Pittman has 136 targets and 96 receptions. Oh, baby. Wide receiver 1 guarantee. We would be so thrilled with that amount of volume. Minimum six touchdowns. Probably over 1,000 yards already. Yeah, but no. No, it's no. It's not good. It's not good. Jayloni Woods, big play last week. He certainly has a future. I'm not sure he has a present this week, but you could take a shot if you wanted to.

And, yeah, well said. And to speak to Zach Moss, we'll Michael talk about him later, disgustingly, but the opportunities are there. He's getting the ball a ton. The matchup is also there. I believe he has a floor that is, you know, like we started Hassan Haskins last week and we're thrilled to have seven and a half fantasy points. If you're thrilled to have seven and a half fantasy points, I do think that's like a minimum. He's the guy for you. Yeah, Zach Moss is going to have seven and a half fantasy points. I don't know that he gets to 10.

I thought you said. I don't know if you gets to eight. Yeah. I think, yeah, it's either a seven and a half or you just slap a touchdown in there. And so you're about 13 and a half. All right. All of the week 18 ranking starts it to on the website to fancy footballers.com. Starts of the week. No finer time for starts of the week than week 18. And no better time for me to go to the Aaron Rogers well. I love this because you have. You have just absolutely besmirged him correctly. Thank you. All season long. So when I saw this in there, I was like, what? And he's perfect. It's perfect. It's perfect. Week 18. He was almost a QB1 with last week's juicy matchup, almost. Almost is as close as he's gotten. And it's perfect. Week 18 is the week for him to come out and give you the week you wanted all year long when nobody could play him. Gets to play Detroit.

Last six home games against Detroit, average 253 and 2.7. Detroit's defense is Duke Gustin. At quarterback, I'm going to go with Trevor Lawrence. Last week, they did not need him against the Houston Texans as they wiped the floor with their running game. This week against Tennessee in a must win game. The Titans are allowing the most passing yards per game. They're 28th to schedule adjusted fantasy points to quarterbacks. And, oh. Last time these two teams played, Trevor Lawrence was the quarterback one. He had 368 passing yards and four total touchdowns. I want pieces of the passing game in this game. Now, I want it to be very clear. My week 18 starts of the week are for those, maybe you're looking at situations where your players are on teams that are going to rest. They're going to be inactive. I want to be very, very clear. Very, very clear about that because.

My quarterback star of the week, if you are desperate, I think that you can play Andy Dalton against the Carolina Panthers. You're going to need some sort of metallic underpants on. You've done, this is not your, I want you to know this. This is a self-inventory time. This is not the first time Andy Dalton's name has come out of your mouth. That is true. That is true. And it did not work last time. I think you're into him. I'm into them this week. The Carolina Panthers, the past two weeks. 30th and 30th against quarterbacks and schedule adjusted. The Carolina Panthers are 25th on the season. Andy Dalton, like he's been a top eight quarterback twice. That is two times more than Andy's start of the week, Mr. Aaron Rogers. Andy Dalton can get it done this week against the Carolina Panthers. Also, can hear that Aaron? That's a good point, Mike. Are we're turning to running backs? Yep. Another Aaron.

I'm looking for another error. It's Aaron Jones against Detroit. It's all in the line. Last year he blew up for three touchdowns against the Lions and Lambo was the number one quarterback on the week. And Detroit's rush defense, which had been just shut down, has been gouged recently. De Alto Foreman, Chuba Hubbard, Justin Fields in the last couple of weeks. You know Aaron Jones. He's an all or nothing guy, but they are, they're fighting for their playoff lives. They have been so impressive. through four quarters, really lately. You know, there was no comeback from Minnesota last week. They just got shellacked by the Packers. And it's, you know, I want the Lions to make the playoffs because I want to see something new happen. I'm excited for that roster. But if you ask me who's going to win the game, it's Green Bay. Yeah, I know. That's how I think everybody feels. Everyone, you know, unless you've got a vested interest in those two teams, everyone wants the Lions to win. And everyone's like, yeah, probably not going to happen.

But go lions. My running back start of the week is Jerich McKinnon going to Las Vegas to play the Raiders. He is on fire. Five straight games with a receiving touchdown. He's the running back two since week 13. He's just been absolutely unstoppable. And the Raiders ranked 27th that schedule adjusted fantasy points to the running back. Most importantly, they've allowed the most running back receiving yards in the NFL. That is what Jerich McKinnon do. Are you making a six straight week guarantee? Oh, absolutely, 100%. Six straight week guarantee. This is what Clyde Edwards was supposed to be. Yeah, exactly. It's so frustrating. He was not ever fast enough. I'm just, that's just what he was supposed to be. This is what the Kansas City Chiefs wanted him to be. That's fair. That's why they drafted him in the first round. As we heard straight from the man's mouth.

Your boy strong. Yes, Jerry McKinnon? Yes. He is. Good for him, by the way. A lot of recovery in his career. Absolutely. All right. Nasty running back start of the week. It is Zach Moss. It is the best possible matchup for a running back against the Houston Texans. They rank dead last and schedule adjusted fantasy points by a mile. The Texans are allowing opponents the highest percentage of 10 plus yard gains over the last decade. Jeff's, like, you want to talk about, like, motivation of should the Colts win, should they lose, Jeff Saturday. A lot of things have been said by me about Jeff Saturday. He is going to want to win that game. He is not going to look at the long-term draft pick for the Colts. He's going to want another win on his resume as he tries to convince the Colts that he should be the permanent coach next year. So I think that Zach Moss is going to get the ball a lot and he will succeed. And my wide receiver, it's Garrett Wilson against Miami.

In four Mike White games, averaging 10 plus targets. Last week was a huge disappointment. But they put up 40 against Miami earlier in the year. He's in a tight race for the offensive rookie of the year. I think you feed Garrett Wilson this week if you're the Jets. Get him moving in a positive way towards 2023. Yeah, and I am going with another Packer. So this is three of them here, but it really correlates with Andy's Aaron Rogers. Because Detroit's rush defense has been great other than the super cold weather game against Carolina. So maybe that will be a factor here. But Christian Watson has been great. He practiced on Wednesday. He should be back to a full allotment of snaps. If he was on my roster, I would absolutely be starting him since week 10. He's targeted on 25.7% of his routes.

That's 10th among wide receivers. That's better than Stefan Diggs, Keenan Allen, or A.J. Brown. And the Lions, they're allowing the highest rate of 15 plus passing yards in the NFL. This matchup seems like a good one for Watson to get a touchdown. My wide receiver start of the week. I'm going with a stack for Mr. Andy Dalton. If he's going to succeed, someone on that team on the wide receiver court will succeed. Why not check out Rashid Shaheed? Since week 12, he is averaging almost 70 yards a game. Mike Evans, there was a reason that Mike Evans was the start of the week last week because the Carolina Panthers are just bad against the past. Rashid Shaheed, averaging over 18 yards per reception since week 10. He's averaging the same yards per route run as Tyreek Hill. And again, Carolina ranks 27th in past DVOA. According to football outsiders, they can be beat deep. And that is Rashid Shaheed's specialty. Oh, go go go, go, go.

Going with Darren Waller in the final week of the season against Kansas City, the highest total of the week. I'm sorry, the highest total of the week. Seen seven plus targets in each of his last five games against the Chiefs. Looked really good last week. Looked like the same Darren Waller. Like he took a lot of time to come back, but he looked like his old self had that rapport with Jarrett Stittam, you know, my future dynasty superstar. Of course. Stupor star. They did say Stupor star. Accurately you did. Yeah, I mean, a stupid star on my team. Stupid star. Over the last month, Kansas City's 29th in schedule adjusted fantasy points to tight ends. Yeah, I really like that. I want pieces in that matchup. I'm going to go with Tyler Higby at Seattle. He's been boom or bust lately. Nasty. But we know this Seattle ranks dead last since scheduled justice points of tight ends. It's a matchup you want a target. I want a titan that can command targets. And since Baker Mayfield became the quarterback.

He leads the team with a 23% target share. He can also earn an additional $125,000. Ooh, like that. If he surpasses 600 receiving yards, which he should do in this game. And you want some targets? Tyler Conklin, conk, maybe. The dolphins have become the second best tight-end matchup, and Conk gets targets when Mike White is the quarterback. We're talking 25 targets over the last month for Tyler Conklin. When they were from Zach Wilson, they weren't so great. But when they're from Mike White, six for 80 last week, he gets it done. He is kind of that number two option right now for the Jets. It's time. The epic conclusion. Oh. Are you ready? Yes. Prepare. Prepare ears or cover them. I'm not sure which one. But it's time. Jason Moore's Ironclad. Locked and loaded. 100% guaranteed boom, boom, boom kicker of the week. Last week on boom, boom kicker. Mm-hmm.

We referenced Sean Bradley and we rode off in victory, me Andy and Mike together. Three buddies valiantly forged together. But stories can change just like the weather. Three's a company, I heard, someone once said, but this trio became a duo once somebody bled. For Andy was stabbed by the blade of Mike. Treason and tragedy were felt alike. But Mike is not the hero of this did he do. He fell victim of a fatal Chipotle poo. So long, Tucker, Gould and Butker, too. Good riddance McPherson and Youngway Coo. For I'm the boom boom, the true marvel of the show. Kickers are hot farts. And you should let those bad boys go.

So you're the boom boom kicker this week. That was. Put me in your lineup. That was outstanding. That was sensational. That was, it really brought it all home. We tell a story. And I think, I think we might need to change up the style next year. So stay tuned. Okay. I'm into that. You can, you can catch up, by the way. Shout out to whoever built boom boom kicker.com. Because you have the whole story line on boom boom kicker.com. I look I don't know what's the worst situation falling victim to Mike's treacherous knife or the way that Mike went down Mike got it worse for sure I mean being stabbed in the back pretty bad but I want to go how I live fellas well yeah that's how yeah okay hey on the toilet speaking of week 18 well that is that is going to do it for today's episode of the show thank you for joining us

I will say this tomorrow. Tomorrow, I will not be shamed. So that will take place tomorrow. One of these two gentlemen near me. I will not be sure. Look, I could care less to be ashamed because I am the League of Record champion. I would be careful what you say. Oh, no. I know. You guys are going to give it to be so hardcore tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, you've done well avoiding it for most of the years. That is on tomorrow's episode, the rest of the matchups. Don't miss it. Oh, boy. Oh, no. You need to let me know what's going on in here. Now I'm afraid. I feel like I'm missing something. So, all right, thank you for joining us. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. If you want to tune in. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com.